mendoza - rafting & repelling

for our last full day in mendoza, we went allll out with a trekking, rafting, and repelling excursion.

during the hike, one of my friends mightt have puked due to being hung over. sorry weonnaa*, this was too funny for me to leave out.

hiking in the Andes!

had to find a place to put my water since i needed all 4 limbs to get down the mountain

got all my gear on for repelling!

that's me!

i survived!

BAMFs

"and we never had to sign anything"

 before...

...during...

...after!

and me passed out on the bus on the way back.

after changing into more appropriate attire (but seriously), we went out to a fancy dinner

 

if you can't tell, that ^ is mcdonalds. embarrassingly, i think i've eaten more mcdonalds in south america (mcflurrys, specificially) than i have eaten in the united states in the past 5 years.

then we found the street fair at Plaza Independencia! 

i could take pictures of all the things i bought but i'm too lazy, so instead i'll do my best to describe them: 2 woven bracelets with big stones, a mini brown purse, a ring with a stone from chile - lapis lazuli (that the guy had to readjust at least 7 times to make it fit on my pinky finger. and today the ring already semi-broke, which is quite unfortunate -_- ), and a few presentsss for people back in california :)

most importantly, we met edward scissor hands.

*weon/weona = chilean slang, sort of the equivalent of "dude/dudette". comes from the word "huevón" and can be used in a positive or negative context. and also as a verb. so it's pretty much a way to say everything and anything.

por ejemplo,

1. ¿Oye weon, cómo estái? = "listen man, how's it going?"

2. No, weon, estoy weando = "Naw, man, I'm just messing/f***ing around"

3. Que es esa wea? = "What the f*** is that?"